Apple Steals & Deals: Sunday, March 4, 2012

by Tom Nelson Looking for a fabulous deal on an Apple or related product? Well, so am I! Every Sunday, I scan the Apple refurbished store to see which Apple products are currently available, and which ones represent good bargains. I try to look only at current versions of Macs, but once in a while [...]

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Mac Battery Tips – Getting the Most Run-Time Out of Your Mac Portable

by Tom Nelson If you’re a mobile Mac user, then you can always use a new tip or two about getting the most life out of your Mac’s battery. Extending your battery’s run-time can be as simple as setting your Mac to go to sleep after a shorter period of inactivity or as complex as [...]

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Apple Steals & Deals: Sunday, February 19, 2012

by Tom Nelson Looking for a fabulous deal on an Apple or related product? Well, so am I! Every Sunday, I scan the Apple refurbished store to see which Apple products are currently available, and which ones represent good bargains. I try to look only at current versions of Macs, but once in a while [...]

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AirDrop Doesn’t Require a Wireless Connection

by Tom Nelson AirDrop, one of the new features in OS X Lion, is designed to allow you to share files with other nearby Macs using a wireless peer-to-peer connection. AirDrop is a pretty nice feature. There’s nothing to set up; your Mac just looks for other nearby Macs and makes a list of those [...]

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Solve Notebook-Projector Setup Problems

by Tom Nelson and Mary O’Connor | PC Today, July 2011, Vol 9, Issue 7 You’re ready to give your presentation, but until that first slide appears on the big screen, you can never be sure that your equipment has got your back. We can’t tell you not to worry, but these handy tips should [...]

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Apple Posts Official MobileMe Transition Guide to iCloud

by Tom Nelson Apple has finally gotten around to answering a few of the more common questions about iCloud, and which MobileMe services would be available in the new service. Most of the existing MobileMe services will make the transition to iCloud, including: Mail Contacts Calendar Bookmarks Find My iPhone Back to My Mac Read [...]

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Will NFC Kill The Credit Card?: The State Of Mobile Payment Services

by Tom Nelson and Mary O’Connor | PC Today, July 2011, Vol 9, Issue 7 Mobile payment systems have come a long way since the advent of magnetic strips on credit and debit cards. Sure, there were mobile payment systems before the credit card, but that ubiquitous magnetic strip fueled the takeoff of mobile payment [...]

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Self-Encrypting Drives & Other Mobile Security Options: Don’t Leave Home The Office Without Them

by Tom Nelson and Mary O’Connor | PC Today, April 2011, Vol 9, Issue 4 Did you hear the one about your competitor’s data breach? The personal information of thousands of their clients was compromised. The culprits weren’t the usual suspects. No one breached a firewall, or hacked into a server. No one compromised a [...]

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How Secure Are Mobile Apps?

by Tom Nelson and Mary O’Connor | PC Today, February 2011, Vol 9, Issue 2 Scary Things Come In Small Packages That smartphone you carry around every day has a dirty little secret. It’s been acquiring reams of personal information about you, and it’s just waiting to divulge it to someone, somewhere, somehow. Does that [...]

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Troubleshoot Projector Problems

by Tom Nelson and Mary O’Connor | PC Today, February 2010, Vol 9, Issue 2 The big moment is at hand, that make-or-break presentation. You know your material by heart, but your projector/notebook combo is acting up. The show must go on, and with the help of these handy tips, it will. An Ounce Of [...]

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